Undestanding Stories in Different Languages with GETA-RUN 
Dario Bianchi, Rodolfo Delmonte, Emanuele Pianta I 
(University of Venice) I 
< Lexicon ) 
Lexical Redundancy Rules 
~TOP DOWN 
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/~ PARSER 
BINDING OF PRONOMINALS D_ 
at sentence level 
(ambiguities are solved on the basis of \[-" 
Semantic Information and previous Topic Structure) I 
LOGICAL ~ F-structure with 1 FORM f bound and free ANALYZER \[ 
pronominal s 
J F-structure 
1 
TEMPORAL AND 
ASPECTUAL 
ANALYZER 
at sentence level 
BINDING OF 
PRONOMINALS 
at discourse level 
INFO 
EVAL 
TEMPORAL 
ANALYZER 
at discourse level 
Logical Form Pronominals Antecedents (discourse 
level) 
TOPICS 
ANALYZER (from 
syntactic 
information) 
SEMANTIC 
INTERPRETATION 
Topic Structure 
f Semantic l \[Representation| 
|(in situation J ~semantic style~ 
I Information 1 Structure 
(relevance, factuality, 
intention) 
WORLD MODEL 
BUILDER 
I World Model (in situation | 
semantic style) J 
b J 
DISCOURSE 
RELATIONS 
ANALYZER 
iscourse tructureJ 
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